A dynamic force seems to be drawing first Western society…

Thinking, or more precisely identification with thinking, gives rise to and maintains the ego, which, in our Western society in particular, is out of…

— Eckhart Tolle

I think we can expect leaders of Muslim societies to cooperate with each other on many issues just as Western societies cooperate with each…

— Samuel P. Huntington

Since Western society is deteriorating, it has become overrun with immorality, and God is going to judge it, and destroy it. And the only…

— Malcolm X

Institutions of higher education in the United Statesare products of Western society in which masculine values like an orientation toward achievement and objectivity are…

— Yolanda Moses

Abolitionism did not find positive response in Africa as it did in Western societies and cultures.

— Ibn Warraq

An effective proclamation of the Gospel in contemporary Western society will need to confront directly the widespread spirit of agnosticism and relativism which has…

— Pope John Paul II

“Western society has in the past few decades taken a great step forward, which gives its members a perhaps unparalleled opportunity. This has been…

— Idries Shah

“Also, a large swath of our intellectual culture is loath to admit that there could be anything good about civilization, modernity, and Western society.”

— Steven Pinker

“The shallow social and political alternatives bequeathed to contemporary western society by the Enlightenment and its aftermath, in which every issue stands either to…

— N.T. Wright

Western society has accepted as unquestionable a technological imperative that is quite as arbitrary as the most primitive taboo: not merely the duty to…

— Lewis Mumford

Writers, you know, are the beggars of Western society.

— Octavio Paz

Religiosity distinguishes America from most other Western societies. Americans are also overwhelmingly Christian, which distinguishes them from many non-Western peoples. Their religiosity leads Americans…

— Samuel P. Huntington

James Baldwin is one of the greatest, North American writers of the second half of the Twentieth Century. A prolific writer and a brilliant…

— Raoul Peck

A society which believes in a worthwhile future saves in the present so as to invest in the future. Contemporary Western society spends in…

— Lesslie Newbigin

The rule of law does not guarantee freedom, since general law as well as personal edicts can be tyrannical. But increasing reliance on the…

— Milton Friedman